annotated links

General

http://advertising.utexas.edu/world/
A comprehensive directory of websites on all aspects of advertising, marketing, branding, targeting, etc.

http://dir.yahoo.com/Social_Science/
Linguistics_and_Human_Languages/
Yahoo’s languages and linguistics directory.

Language-related blogs and hubs

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/%7Emyl/languagelog/
Links to language-related articles, blogs, and other sites; updated frequently.

http://mason.gmu.edu/~smorris2/feed/
Hub of language-related news articles; updated weekly.

http://www.languagehat.com/
Interesting blog with many links; updated daily.

http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/ckbetas/
Good blog dealing with writing for the Web; many links.

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/
Collection of articles dealing with “rhetoric, community, and culture of weblogs.”

1. Language as Argument

http://knowgramming.com/metaphors/
metaphor_chapters/examples.htm
Information about and exercises dealing with metaphors.

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/
Information about classical and modern rhetoric plus a large database of speeches in text and sound files.

2. How Writing Changes Language: Some Consequences of Literacy

http://www.omniglot.com/
A fascinating and well-organized source of information about all of the world’s writing systems.

http://www.thinkingwithtype.com/
All about type as a design element and medium of thought.

3. Technology and (versus?) Language

http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/
A weblog for librarians and cyberlibrarians about the Internet and public libraries; reports on technological developments as they affect publishing and libraries.

http://club.pep.ne.jp/~hiroette/en/facemarks/
body.html
Interesting info on Japanese emoticons.

4. Multilingual USA

http://www.mla.org/census_main
A map of languages in the United States, with several interactive viewing options.

http://www.nativeculture.com/lisamitten/
natlang.html
Impressive list of links to indigenous language pages.

http://www.pbs.org/speak/
The website of a PBS project about language and speech in the United States.

5. Talking While Black: African American Language in the United States

http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~patrickp/AAVE.html
Lots of good basic information with links for going deeper.

http://www.stanford.edu/~rickford/ebonics/
Links to a variety of essays and other writings about African American English by linguist John Rickford (see Rickford’s essay in Chapter 5 of the text).

6. His and Hers: Language and Gender

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/lifestyle/
transgender.shtml
More about voice feminization and the therapist Michelle Mordaunt (mentioned in a Chapter 6 reading).

http://www.crossmyt.com/hc/linghebr/austheir.html
All about Jane Austen’s use of the singular “they.”

http://www.languagehat.com/archives/000872.php
More on singular “they” with links.

http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/bucholtz/lng/
A portal to a wide variety of resources on language and gender.

7. Language in Deaf Communities

http://www.deaflibrary.org/
A well-organized collection of links to organizations and resources for Deaf/deaf and hard-of-hearing people and their loved ones as well as information about ASL, Japanese Sign Language, and much more.

http://www.deafresources.com/
What could be more enlightening than shopping?

8. Languages and National Identities

http://www.nativeculture.com/lisamitten/
mascots.html
Thorough and well-balanced list of links about the mascot issue.

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/
JWCRAWFORD/question.htm
A wealth of information about the issue of Official English.

http://www.us-english.org/
The website of the organization U.S. English.

9. Globalizing English

http://www.english.co.uk/FoE/contents/cont.html
The website of a company in England that studies English and English-related trends around the world.

http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Paul.Treanor/
eulang.html
A wealth of articles, essays, and opinion papers about the linguistic situation in Europe and the rest of the world.

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